Educational Classes with The Marin Foundation’s Culture War Curriculum

If you have ever wanted to learn practical steps for building bridges between the LGBTQ community and conservatives, now is the time! If you read Love is an Orientation and want to know, “Now what?” here is your answer. Whether you are a pastor, a parent, a youth worker, an LGBTQ individual, a professor, or someone who is simply interested in knowing how to elevate this conversation, this is for you! Join us for The Marin Foundation’s educational classes based on our innovative Culture War Curriculum.

The Culture War Curriculum is designed to offer concrete and feasible methods of engagement between divided communities. These classes are a unique opportunity to be educated about the culture war between conservatives and the LGBTQ community and to learn how to answer tough questions by building bridges instead of tearing them down. You will walk away with a better understanding of the “Other” and new ways to connect in peaceful and productive dialogue.

The Culture War Curriculum covers the Social, Historical, Political, Scientific and Theological aspects of this topic and includes the following sections:

Historical Identity: Politics, Sex, Religion and the LGBTQ Community

Practical Applications to Building Bridges and Elevating the Conversation between Divided Communities

Faith and Life Acculturation: Discovering an Ideal Existence apart from Mainstream Norms

Our Town to Their Town: Understanding the Art of Biblical Interpretation

Theology of Sex and Sexuality

Scientific Research and Homosexuality: What is it? What does it conclude? How does that impact the divide? and Where do we go from here?

September 5-6, 2015: Two day weekend course in Chicago at 5241 N Ashland Avenue, 1st Floor. For more details and to register please email Jason Bilbrey at jason@themarinfoundation.org

If you are interested in hosting a course in your city please contact Jason Bilbrey for more information: jason@themarinfoundation.org or 773-572-5983.

More About the Culture War Curriculum:

The framework for all of our classes is to foster discussion. Both the progressive and conservative point of view will be discussed and each section will conclude with a model for a new paradigm of engagement. Our classes accept all points of view and our main objective is education, not condemnation. We promote intellectual dialogue and a more holistic understanding of this issue.

Over the years our Culture War Curriculum has been taught for credit or in a series of lectures by The Marin Foundation at a number of LGBTQ, conservative, faith-based and secular non-profits, government agencies, clinics, high schools, community centers, churches large and small, and Christian and secular universities such as: